Madisonville Mural
Chattanooga-based muralist Nathan Brown has been painting his way across the South for more than two decades. The Los Angeles-born artist has long embraced the transition between cities through painting graffiti and exploring new territories via skateboarding. Brown draws inspiration from these passions, using color and form to play with perspective. Positioned at the intersection of abstractionism and street art, his work appears on multi-story buildings across the United States and Europe.
Brown based his Madisonville mural on two local landmarks, an underground lake and the Cherohala Skyway, putting his own unique spin on the interpretation, hand-mixing 58 colors to create a gradient wonderland of rolling hills, mountainous shapes and cave-like water features.
The Dream Cloud mural was sponsored by Monroe Area Council for the Arts, the East Tennessee Foundation, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, and the Tennessee Arts Commission’s FY23 Creative Placemaking grant and was managed by DMA Events. Image by Odinn Media.
